That One Time Laura Almost Poisoned the President

I’ve been reading David Sedaris again, which makes me want to tell stories. Unfortunately, nothing interesting has ever happened to me. Probably the best story I know is actually about my friend Laura, who almost poisoned the president while taking a gap year in college.

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Re: That One Time Laura Almost Poisoned the President

The reason I'm reading David Sedaris is because a friend recently told me that he got cancelled on Twitter last November for making a joke about his own privilege during the pandemic that landed in a way that made it seem as if he was dunking on service workers. This reminded me of how much I like Sedaris's story "Go Carolina" (the first piece in the collection Me Talk Pretty One Day), which is about how all the gay kids got sent to speech therapy in elementary school.

Like, where is the lie. It's totally a thing that the Future Homosexuals of America were singled out in various ways by the public school system, and that particular essay is such a good story about how everything makes much more sense when you look back on your childhood as an adult.